Eric Simon
9/29/2010 12:54:00 AM
As mentioned in the First Chance Qualifier discussion:
Deck Name: (Keep Feeling) Vaticination
Created By: Eric Simon
Description: Trujah without all that pre/pot nonsense.
Possible changes: Add Veejay Vinod, probably dropping Andre. Maybe
more Quicksilvers if I want to be a little less toolboxy (though
they're good defensively too).
Crypt: (12 cards, Min: 18, Max: 35, Avg: 6.42)
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3 Lydia, Grand Praetor AUS FOR dom POT pre TEM True
Brujah 9
3 Al-Muntathir, God's Witness AUS FOR obf qui PRE TEM True
Brujah 8
1 Mikael Birkholm aus for POT PRE TEM
True Brujah 8
1 Serenna the White ani AUS dem FOR OBE
Salubri 8
1 La Viuda Bianca AUS for NEC obf
Harbingers 6
1 Azrael AUS for
VAL !Salubri 5
1 Tyler McGill AUS pre
Toreador 4
1 Andre LeRoux aus
Toreador 3
Library: (90 cards)
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Master (15 cards)
1 Archon Investigation
1 Fame
1 Giant's Blood
1 House of Sorrow
1 Information Highway
1 Smiling Jack, The Anarch
1 Tabriz Assembly
1 The Coven
2 Vessel
2 Villein
1 Wash
2 Wider View
Action (15 cards)
1 Cheat the Fates
5 Clotho's Gift
3 Pulse of the Canaille
1 Repair the Undead Flesh
5 Vaticination
Action Modifier (13 cards)
2 Dawn Operation
8 Domain of Evernight
2 Pocket Out of Time
1 Tangle Atropos' Hand
Reaction (23 cards)
5 Enhanced Senses
2 Eyes of Argus
2 Forced Vigilance
1 Hard Case
3 Precognition
1 Rewind Time
5 Telepathic Misdirection
4 Wake With Evening's Freshness
Combat (17 cards)
6 Indomitability
2 Lapse
5 Outside the Hourglass
2 Skin of Night
2 Soak
Equipment (1 card)
1 Bowl of Convergence
Combo (8 cards)
3 Quicksilver Contemplation
Comments:
Aside from the obvious appeal of finally having vamps that can play
Quicksilver Contemplation out of the box, the Group 5/6 Trujah add the
defense that was sorely lacking in previous groups. This deck is
somewhat of a toolbox, as you can see by the stray single copies of
various corner-case cards. Its main ousting mechanism is the Pulse
(and occasionally Quicksilver) bleeds backed up by severe punishment
to anyone who blocks (2 agg before range). Fame and Smiling Jack are
there to whittle folks down, and to offer an alternate ousting method
if I'm facing something difficult to get through, such as an Obedience
wall.
Tabriz, Giant's Blood and Azrael are all very helpful for keeping the
key vampire stocked with blood, but I have to thank John Flournoy for
pointing out the Coven/House of Sorrow combo. It's my new favorite
trick.
With all that in mind, I nevertheless named the deck after the card
that makes everything possible. Vaticination has proven to be
extremely powerful for defense, deal-making, table balancing, and (of
course) responsible bleeding. I love this card. And it doesn't hurt
that whenever I say it's name, I get a certain Human League song stuck
in my head...